...has no basis in history. James Cone in his first book on Black theology quotes the Great Emancipator. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it; and if I could...

...Union, at least in his official capacity as president. "My paramount object in this struggle," he wrote, "is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could...

...would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I...

...discussing the Black migration North of the 1800s), 117-118. 65. Ibid. 66. Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and...

...North and in Canada still leery of his intent, My paramount object is to save the Union and not cither to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, 1 do because I believe it...

...with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it...

...emancipation, this has a familiar ring. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save...I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."6 Had Grant read Lincoln's speech? No, because Lincoln was replying to...

...but he also differed with those who would not seek to save the Union unless slavery was destroyed. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavely. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it...

...paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union," Lincoln wrote, "and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving...

...emancipation, Lincoln publicly explained to Horace Greeley (editor of the influential New York Tribune) that "my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." This hardly contravenes the point just made about Lincoln's commitment to the...